Image: Lucius Coleman Hall House, Webster, NC (46615212631)

Description: This is the old Lucius Coleman Hall House, located down an unassuming gravel side road atop a grassy knoll adjacent to the Tuckaseigee River just outside the town of Webster, North Carolina. The house was originally constructed circa 1850 as a “saddlebag” house with a gable roof and a centrally located brick chimney, which now makes up the rear ell of the present structure, making it one of the oldest remaining houses in Jackson County. In 1891-92, a large front addition was constructed by Lucius Coleman Hall, a two and a half story Late Victorian-style structure with Queen Anne-style elements that expanded the humble abode into one of the county’s grandest houses. The 1892 section of the house features a protruding central bay with five Queen Anne-style block windows, topped by a central gable that is accented by brackets on either side. Flanking the central bay are two eyebrow windows, as well as two additional windows on either side. The house received the addition of the current hipped-roof porch on the front around 1950, which ties the front of the structure together and looks out over the Tuckaseigee River below. Owing to how historically significant the house is for its age and level of craftsmanship and detail, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, and is one of six National Register-listed properties around the county’s former county seat town, out of a total of twenty in the county.
Title: Lucius Coleman Hall House, Webster, NC (46615212631)
Credit: Lucius Coleman Hall House, Webster, NC
Author: Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States
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